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...side has raised $15 million.) Earlier this week, a pro-gay group called the Courage Campaign sent supporters an e-mail noting that both an internal poll undertaken by those who support same-sex marriage and another by a San Francisco TV station show that Californians now favor ending same-sex marriage by a margin of 47-42, a reversal from just a few weeks ago. (Read "Why Gay Marriage Was Defeated in California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viewpoint: For Gay Marriage, Time to Go Beyond the Courts | 10/10/2008 | See Source »

Pittsburgh's playbook still has some familiar features, but it is far more diverse. They still make stuff here, albeit with 8,400 fewer workers over 10 years. But commodity metals have been abandoned in favor of higher-value alloys like titanium. Importantly, the metal companies here now serve global industries that have been going flat out, such as power generation, energy, mining and transportation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finding One Economic Bright Spot on Main Street | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

Please, BlackBerry users, remember back to the time when you were happy to play “Snake” on your cheap Nokia. Some of us use our phones primarily to make phone calls, so do us all a favor, and put yours back in your pockets...

Author: By Charleton A. Lamb, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BlackBerry Ettiquette | 10/8/2008 | See Source »

...counting on young African-Americans," who connect with Obama more readily than their parents or grandparents do, "to bring the black vote up to where we need it in Florida," says an Obama campaign official. Obama faces a tougher time with Latinos, who according to a recent poll favor McCain in Florida by 51% to 41%. Again, Obama is counting on younger Latinos like Esteban Morera, 18, a Miamian and UCF freshman, to keep him competitive in that community. Morera says he was undecided until McCain selected Palin last month. "It helped confirm for me that I really like Obama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Young Voters Could Be the Deciding Factor in Florida | 10/8/2008 | See Source »

...television attacks ads, she produced a brilliantly effective one showing two men engaged in a brawl near a park bench. In the ad, Kryzan appears in the foreground and says, "Boys, take it somewhere else." The high-road message was widely credited with turning the primary in Kryzan's favor, and she ended up with 41% of the vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Races to Watch: A GOP Seat at Risk in Upstate New York | 10/8/2008 | See Source »

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